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...least 6,000 men, well-trained in combined operations on land, sea and air, or else it will be thrown back into the sea." Starting in Castro's first week in power, 21 months of frantic arms buying has funneled enough military hardware into Cuba to equip no fewer than nine light divisions of 7,500 men each, give Cuba more firepower than has ever been seen in the Caribbean...
...SAFETY will be improved by new government program. The Federal Aviation Agency will spend $163 million in next eight months to equip air-traffic-control centers with latest radar equipment, install better approach lights at dozens of airports...
...much "research" is not all it might be. and is sometimes at the mundane level that most impresses state legislators, there are signs of improvement. With huge budgets, state universities can lure and equip more top researchers. With lower tuition than private schools, they attract more graduate students. At the University of Michigan, 40% of the enrollment is graduate students. At Cal, it is 43%. Many state universities are moving in the direction of the exclusively graduate institution that the rest of the world calls a university-even though they will always have undergraduates...
When De Gaulle's government took over in France and cast about for ways to restore French economic grandeur, one of its major moves was to model its depreciation allowances after the Germans. For new equipment with a life of three years, a French firm is allowed 50% first-year tax write-off, and for equipment to be depreciated over ten years or longer, it can write off no less than 25%. The idea, French experts happily note, almost compels industry to re-equip and modernize itself rapidly. Sweden for a time allowed 100% first-year write-offs...
Given the stubborn resistance of caste to the most enlightened attempts at reform, few foreigners or Indians looked for an overnight revolution. But the Calcutta Municipal Corp. promised to equip its 2,000 sweepers with the new brooms, and New Delhi's Chief Sanitary Inspector Partap Singh personally called at the U.S. embassy to borrow a sample broom to be used in inviting bids from manufacturers...